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Diets promise quick and tasty meals that will get you down to a size 2 in six weeks or less. Exercise equipment is sold on the basis that it will get you six-pack abs in three minutes a day, without breaking a sweat. Internet ads promise to eliminate your belly with one secret trick. These are all…

Exercise makes you weaker and slower. It is the recovery process that your body goes through after exercise that makes you stronger, faster, and healthier. So what is recovery, and how do you help your body make the most of it? I’m glad you asked. WHAT IS RECOVERY? The simplest way to understand recovery is…

I know it’s tempting to skip a workout that looks scary. But that’s, generally speaking, a bad idea. Here are a few good reasons to do the workouts that you dread: 1. You get better by doing the things you suck at Usually, the dread of a workout has something to do with the fact that you think you’ll…

Starting today, we’re introducing suggested scalings for our WODs. Every WOD will have three levels: Prescribed (rx), scaled (sc), and beginner (be). We’re doing this for a few reasons: To encourage appropriate scaling To provide a quick reference for ways to scale To develop a better understanding of scaling in general When we write a WOD…

Thrusters hurt. They hurt because you have to move the bar a long distance (from the bottom of the squat to the top of a press), you can do it with a pretty decent amount of weight, and you have to do it quickly. Wait a minute… Long distance… Large load… Short time… That sounds…